A blog for the United States branch of the global Centre for Fortean Zoology

At the beginning of the 21st Century monsters still roam the remote, and sometimes not so remote, corners of our planet. It is our job to search for them. The Centre for Fortean Zoology [CFZ] is - we believe - the largest professional, scientific and full-time organisation in the world dedicated to cryptozoology - the study of unknown animals. Since 1992 the CFZ has carried out an unparalleled programme of research and investigation all over the world. Since 2009 we have been running the increasingly popular CFZ Blog Network, and although there has been an American branch of the CFZ for over ten years now, it is only now that it has a dedicated blog.

1967: Trucker Sidney Zipkin reports a 10:15 p.m. UFO
sighting at Churchville, New York. According to Zipkin, his headlights revealed
two small humanoid entities dressed in shiny black outfits, standing near a
"Saturn-shaped" UFO hovering "near the ground." As he
watched, the entities boarded the craft and it "took off straight
up."

1976: While sitting on his front porch in Mount Holly, North
Carolina, witness Roger Hoffman claims he was approached by a Bigfoot roughly
seven feet tall. Grabbing a handy gun, Hoffman fires at the creature, whereupon
it flees into darkness.

The Las Perlas Islands lie off the coast of Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Here in 1883 the whalers aboard the ship Hope On spotted a strange sea creature. It boasted a horse-like head and a pair of horns, which were said to look like those of a unicorn. It had four appendages which were either legs or double-jointed fins. Its color was brownish with black spots. Its tail seemed to divide into two parts. This was not the only reported sighting. It is said that sailors of the Pacific Mail Company had also seen it a number of times.

1973: Donald Cowdell, Charles Searles, and their wives
allegedly see Bigfoot while driving Kingsbury Grade, north of Lake Tahoe,
Nevada. They describe a creature seven to eight feet tall, covered with long, shiny
black hair and having a "flat leathery face." It walks off into brush
as they pass.

1976: A female witness claims a 5:30 a.m. Bigfoot sighting
near Montana's Great Falls Airport, at the same location where a motorist
reported an identical sighting on February 22. The woman describes
"her" creature as seven to eight feet tall, reporting that when she
stopped her car, it casually walked away and out of sight.

1978: After nine-year-old witness Donette Henkins reports
seeing a "short, hairy, apelike animal with fangs and deep-set eyes"
growling at her from a distance of mere inches, in Ottosen, Iowa, other
residents of that town—Jan Jenkins and two others unnamed—report the same
creature lurking between two buildings downtown. Searchers find nothing.

A number of sightings in 2015. Such creatures, if they exist, may be extradimensional. The UK is too small to harbor an unknown population of Bigfoot. The only other possibilities I can think of is that they live underground or are being dropped off by UFOs.

Puerto Rico seems to abound in strange creatures. One such was encountered on March 30th, 2013. Its face, with a sort of canine snout, put one in mind of a bull terrier. It had batlike wings and its skin generally resembled the skin of that animal. Its eyes were dark as was its skin. It had arms as well as wings and legs. Its feet (it had two) appeared to be clawed. The witness was a driver named Fernando Diaz. Details of his sighting are to be found in Albert Rosales' book Humanoid Encounters 2010-2015.